September 16, 2022

Announcements!

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 17 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on

the PowerShell Gallery!

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By: Sydney Smith submitted:Sep 16 2022

Windows Terminal Preview 1.16 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The Windows Terminal team is back with another release for you! This release introduces version 1.16

to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to version 1.15 with these new features. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store,

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By: Kayla Cinnamon submitted:Sep 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Audit Events in Your Azure Subscription with PowerShell (smsagent.blog)
Update! v.1.1 released fixing a bug where the most recent events were not being returned

(2022-09-13) A quick post - I just published a new script for retrieving activity log events for an Azure subscription as the current options for searching and retrieving events didn't satisfy me.

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By: Trevor Jones submitted:Sep 16 2022

Automating scripts without saving credentials on the server (reddit.com)
My org has decided to disable the saving of network passwords on servers, so I can no longer use

Task Scheduler to run my Powershell scripts.

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By: u/xylog submitted:Sep 16 2022

Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell with an Azure Managed Identity (thelazyadministrator.com)
Recently the Exchange Online Module v2 came out with support for connecting to Exchange Online via a

managed identity. The module has several parameters:

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By: Brad Wyatt submitted:Sep 16 2022

Create an Azure Arc Service Principal with longer expiration date using PowerShell (thomasmaurer.ch)
When you are onboarding at scale of Azure Arc enabled servers or Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes

clusters, you want to use service principals for automated authentication during the onboarding process for Azure Arc resources. Microsoft provides you with an option in the Azure portal to create that service principal. When you use this, you can set .

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Sep 16 2022

Does PowerShell DSC have any concept of a ‘handler’ like Ansible does? (reddit.com)
So for those unaware, a 'handler' in Ansible is basically a task that executes upon a specific

condition, such as a file being changed on the system. You can 'notify' the handler task, in which case Ansible knows that at the end of your playbook, it will execute that task regardless of where in the playbook you currently are, but **only if the notifying task has caused a change to the system**.

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By: u/Marquis77 submitted:Sep 16 2022

How to Report High-Priority Azure AD App Permissions That Hackers Might Exploit (practical365.com)
Microsoft 365 tenants usually include many Azure AD apps. These apps hold permissions, including

permissions that hackers like to exploit. This article explains how to use PowerShell to detect apps with high-priority permissions and report them to administrators for review.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Sep 16 2022

Power On HPE Server Using PowerShell (adminknowhow.wordpress.com)
You may need to download the HP iLO Cmdlets for Windows PowerShell (x64) from HPE support portal and

install it on the server/machine you wish you execute the PowerShell command. COMMAND Below is the PowerShell command to power on/off the server.

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By: Jimmy Liew submitted:Sep 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Monitor Network Connectivity with PowerShell 7 (Successful Pings) (sid-500.com)
Recently, I have created a script that returns a beep sound when the connection is re-established. I

would like to share this script here on my website.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Sep 16 2022

PSMDE 0.5.7 (powershellgallery.com)
Provides a PowerShell functions to interact with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE)
By: Jan-Henrik Damaschke submitted:Sep 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Exploring AutomatedLab and DSC with Raimund Andrée (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we revisit AutomatedLab with the other primary maintainer, Raimund Andrée. Raimund

teaches us about DSC and shares details of the DSCWorkshop project, which is a great way to go about learning more about DSC in a hands-on manner. We also learned about Cattle vs. Pets and how that applies to your servers. You can hear all of this, plus more in this companion episode to our first AutomatedLab episode.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Sep 16 2022

Fun

Set-WallpaperClock 1.3.1 (powershellgallery.com)
A PS Module that sets your desktop background to show the current time.
By: Psychosapien submitted:Sep 16 2022

Text-To-Speech using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
Just a little fun thing for a Friday, text-to-speech! We used this many years ago at the office,

sending this to the laptop of a colleague and having fun while he's trying to figure out where the voice is coming from ?? How it works There is a System.Speech assembly which can be used to

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Sep 16 2022

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